Upon arrival in Barcelona, Miguel is fired from his job as a sailor and the financial problems which he will face from that moment will gradually introduce him into the world of crime. The little money they his wife Ines had previously saved , thanks to her hard work, will be quickly squandered by him.

The young daughter of the Count of Aubanel, beautiful and kind-hearted, is loved by all her father's vassals; but she is cruelly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister.